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So many people from 2012 were acting shocked and appalled by the mere suggestion that it would sell less than 40 million and it's looking like it's going to sell even less than half of that in reality.

Wii U proves one thing: exclusives alone can't sell a console. If Wii U also had the same multiplats as PS4 and Xbox One maybe things would be different. Messaging matters too. PS4 and Xbox One are doing so well because they market a lot of these third-party games themselves, making a lot of more casual people associate those third-party games with their console and potentially mistakenly believe that they're exclusives. If Nintendo manages to get a few third-party games on Nx, they definitely shouldn't treat them like afterthoughts. If they could strike up a deal with Activision or EA on something like Call of Duty or Battlefield, it would be really good for them.